PC Resolutions for 2003, Part I

By Tom Mighell on December 26, 2002

There’s an article in PC World this week on the Top 10 Resolutions for Your PC. If you want to read the whole article, head to the link above, but I thought I would comment on a few of the resolutions, with ideas for improving your computing experience:

Banish Junk from Your Hard Drive

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Top 10 Myth-takes in thinking about Google

By Tom Mighell on December 24, 2002

Posted in Search Engines

SitePoint provides a nice article on the Top 10 Google Myths — most of it is heavy on Google’s PageRank feature.

A few more Christmas sites…

By Tom Mighell on December 24, 2002

Posted in Fun Stuff

If you’re spending the day at home with your kids, check out Claus.com, and find out whether Santa thinks you’re naughty or nice.

The kids can head over to Kid’s Domain for even more holiday fun.

And if there are any Christmas questions you can’t answer, head over to How Christmas Works and get

Yahoo! to purchase Inktomi

By Tom Mighell on December 24, 2002

Posted in Search Engines

Very interesting……Yahoo! will purchase search engine specialist Inktomi for $237 million. I guess Yahoo! doesn’t want to play with Google anymore…

Now available

By Tom Mighell on December 22, 2002

Posted in Mighell Marker

This week’s edition of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, at your service.

Are any of you working tomorrow?

By Tom Mighell on December 22, 2002

Posted in Web and Online Culture

Then you still have time to do some Christmas shopping online at work, along with the rest of the people in this New York Times article.

This one hits too close to home

By Tom Mighell on December 22, 2002

Posted in Fun Stuff, Security

Up for a “reality game” today? Check out the Realistic Internet Simulator, and see how many pop-up ads you can kill. Warning: you may not be able to tell the difference between this game and your own computer screen.

See only what they want you to see…

By Tom Mighell on December 22, 2002

Posted in Web and Online Culture

Although it’s much easier nowadays to find information about businesses online, our ability to find this information is still often limited by the companies themselves. The New York Times reports that many companies are divided about how much information to make available to the public.

Those dadgum Orbitz popups just got meaner

By Tom Mighell on December 21, 2002

Posted in Security

I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I really, really hate popup ads. I currently use PopNot to stop the madness, and it works reasonably well. Unfortunately, it just can’t stop those Orbitz travel ads. Now, it seems the devious marketing minds at Orbitz have come up with a new scheme; popup ads

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Best of the Web

By Tom Mighell on December 21, 2002

Posted in Legal Research Sites

Bob Ambrogi, host of the Lawsites weblog, has this nice roundup of some of the best new legal websites of 2002. Included in the article are many sites mentioned here and in the Internet Legal Research Weekly, including How Appealing, SCOTUSBlog, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, the Women’s Law Initiative,…

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PC Resolutions for 2003, Part I

Top 10 Myth-takes in thinking about Google

A few more Christmas sites…

Yahoo! to purchase Inktomi

Now available

Are any of you working tomorrow?

This one hits too close to home

See only what they want you to see…

Those dadgum Orbitz popups just got meaner

Best of the Web

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